《纸镇》

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

因为某个人长得好看，人们就想围在他身边，我总觉得很荒谬。就像吃早餐的时候挑麦片，不是根据味道来选，而是看颜色。

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

离开很难，但真正离开的时候你就不觉得难了。到那时，离开简直是世界上最简单的事情。

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

小镇是纸做的，但回忆不是。

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”

如果你不去想象，那就什么都不会发生。

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”

跟一个喝醉的人说话就像跟一个特别快乐、大脑受到严重损伤的三岁小孩说话。

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

只要我们不死，这就是一个精彩至极的故事。

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”

也许是他身体里所有的弦都断了。

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”

你不能一直都抬头看天，不然总有一天你低头的时候会发现自己已经漂远了。

“The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.”

句子开头的单词首字母大写，这个规则对句子中间的单词来说太不公平了。

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.”

没有什么事情会按照你想象中那样发生。

《纸镇》